He didn’t need any fancy equipment to help him easily plow his drive — just a little ingenuity. Pennsylvania ingenuity.

A video posted on Facebook by Kaitlynn Toporzycki, who lives in Chambersburg, during the winter of 2017-18 shows Jonathan Schill, her fiancé, plowing a driveway with a lawnmower and a cardboard box.

Schill was 15 minutes into his snow shoveling that day when he decided he needed a snow plow, just after the first big snow of the season. Having just moved, he only had a shovel, a much larger driveway than before, and no access to a plow.

He looked in his garage and found a box to a 50-inch TV - cardboard with a shiny coating - and decided to see if he could fasten it to his lawn mower.

The video of what happened next has been viewed over 10 million times.

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Jonathan Schill decided he needed a snow plow on December 30, 2017. He rigged his own using a cardboard box and a riding lawn mower — then this video of him plowing snow in central Pennsylvania went viral.

"My first thought was I didn't really intend to do this to be funny, I did it to save myself from being tired and all that," Schill said in January 2018. "I really didn't expect it to be this big."

Toporzycki said she loves that the video shows off her fiance's creativity, even if it is something silly.

"We're simple people, so it's not every day that our posts gets shared," Toporzycki said. Most notably, she saw her video shared by comedian Jeff Foxworthy.

Schill said when he saw that, he questioned "How is it getting so big? It's just a box."

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York County has been around 'a while ' - officially since 1749 - so you're going to collect plenty of curious, strange and weird people, places and things. These photos would fall into one, two or all of these areas. And I'll keep adding them as I come across them, so check back. We'll start with the list topper, the Hex Murder House, where three young assailants attacked a suspected witch to break a spell he had allegedly place on one or two of them. More about this at the end. - Jim McClure York Daily Record file

OK, this is one of York County's weirdest scenes. The ford of Tyler Run on York College's campus. A small survey of YCP lovers did not reveal why no bridge was built. It's a mystery, but one could speculate that good old-fashioned York County thriftiness was a contributor! Uh, the stream level dictates whether you can make the ford. Jim McClure, York Daily Record

Visit Wildcat Falls today along the river road north of Wrightsville, and you'd never know that it was a destination for thousands each year. People would go there to picnic and have fun, some from across the Susquehanna in Marietta. York Daily Record file

Is it Pigeon Hills or Pidgeon Hills? The passenger pigeon monument at Codorus State Park, standing on a hill off Marina Road, was rededicated 25 years ago after the move from its original site in the hills north of Hanover. Some sources say those hills north of Hanover are the Pidgeon Hills. Others say they're the Pigeon Hills. It's a difficult controversy to resolve. Some believe those hills are named after the Pigeon family. Others back the Penn's surveyor of Paradise Township, Joseph Pidgeon. The controversy is stoked by the fact that passenger pigeons populated the area in the late 1880s. The monument celebrates the extinct birds. x

This is just fun: Why do people continue the custom or loading up on water from this southern York County springs? The lonely pipe pokes out along Seven Valleys Road. A pipe installed along the side of Seven Valleys Road between York New Salem and Seven Valleys. Water is plentiful so why do people do this? Take your pick: It's free. They've been doing this for years. It's just fun. Or you simply like the water. York Daily Record file

This is surely one of York County's most unusual tombstones. This granite bear stands in Mount Zion Cemetery on Mount Zion Road, north the York Galleria. The inscription: "Gone to Happy Hunting Ground." York Daily Record file

This is one of those places where your car seems to roll up hill. It's where Pleasant View Road intersects with Wyndamere Road in Fairview Township, the terrain helps produce the illusion that your car is rolling uphill. There's an urban legend that there was a deadly bus crash here years ago and the deceased hang around to give you a push. Google Maps

Ruins Hall is a new event venue in Glen Rock, Pa. 'The concrete structure (of Ruins Hall) lends itself to being a good event space for block parties and live music festivals,' an event organizer told FlipSidePa. So a question that emerges: What was on this site that became ruins? The short answer: It was part of a factory complex that was used to make a number of things in this industrial town over the years. York Daily Record file

A drought in the mid-1960s brought a rainmaker to York, complete with magic box. (More about this strange story:http://bit.ly/2dg0BMj). That same drought brought Lake Redman, too. This is how Lake Redman looked before it was Lake Redman. Lureen Brown provided these photos of that snowy York Township countryside as it looked in 1961. This photo looks across the hill as it comes down from Jacobus. Five years later, lake waters flooded this land. The boat landing at Lake Redman is roughly where the big hill meets the ridge, left center. Lureen Brown said if you'd stand in that field today: 'You'd be under water." Submitted

This is a drawbridge of sorts on North Penn Street, only it was drawn by muscle power. The bridge was raised to let rail shipments of large equipment to pass underneath. The bridge is gone, replaced by a footbridge about 20 years ago. Stephen H. Smith

The Shoe House was constructed after World War II as a promotion by "Shoe Wizard" Mahlon Haines. Today, it serves ice cream lovers and those who just want to check out this prime example of oversized roadside architecture in Springettsbury Township. York Daily Record file

Strange and curious does not mean bad. Here's a strange and curious that helps define Christmas in York County. The Glen Rock Carol Singers don their top hats and stroll the streets of Glen Rock singing time-honored Christmas carols. This photo brings an interesting perspective: Steam into History's locomotive sits in the background, an 1865 replica representing a time not long after the carolers first sang carols along the streets of Glen Rock. York Daily Record file

Another curious rite of Christmas, Christmas magic. It started in the energy crisis of the 1970s when residents saved electricity by going without decorations. York County Parks' filled the void with this enormous light show at Rock Ridge Park in Springettsbury Township. York Daily Record file

You can't make this up. For decades, York has been blessed with a Christmas concert in which an old factory whistle served as the instrument. This whistle, from the New York Wire Cloth company, has an adjustable valve that whistlemaster Don Ryan - yes, there is such a position - can move to perform Christmas carols. It's a musical display of the old World War II York Plan saying: "Do what you can with what you have." York Daily Record file

This was a Christmas custom that is no more. In the post-World War II era, Santa would fly into York Airport, travel to the Bon-Ton Department store on a fire truck and climb through an upper-level window. This marked the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Perhaps the annual city tree lighting ceremony, which drew a massive crowd in 2016, has in some way replaced this memorable moment. York Daily Record file

Belsnickel, being reenacted here in a York County Pennsylvania Dutch group, is sometimes viewed as a type of early Santa Claus. There are still Pennsylvania Dutch - a German dialect - speakers in York County, Pa. But there are no known Belsnickles around today! York Daily Record file

There are all kinds of myths concerning the origin and meaning of the pickle in a Christmas tree. Here a 3 o'clock, a pickle ornament is hidden in a Christmas tree that is part of an exhibit at the Goodridge Freedom House in York. Why would the house of a former slave-turned-businessman have a Christmas tree exhibit? William C. Goodridge, that business and Underground Railroad operative, hosted such an exhibit in 1840. York Daily Record

You'd never know these buildings were the place where York Peppermint Patties were made for decades. Production moved from these North Pine Street buildings several years ago, and the "cool-breeze" candy, still going by the York name, is made in Mexico today. York Daily Record file

Now get to get to come curious York County dishes and culinary customs. We'll start with hog maw, sausage and other goodies cased in pig's stomach. With its cousin - pork & sauerkraut - hog maw, popular around New Year's Day, is reported to give good luck in the new year. York Daily Record file

This York County delicacy, also a New Year's good luck dish, is commonly called pork and sauerkraut. It comes in that order even though the fermenting cabbage, the sour in kraut, outnumbers the pork as a percentage of a helping and also in the smell department. York Daily Record file

Not only is the Pennsylvania Dutch fastnacht spelled in different ways, it is made in various ways. How do fasnachts differ from donuts - or is it doughnuts? Some contend real fastnachts have to be made with potatoes. York Daily Record

This might be the most popular recipe created in York County. (But it's a secret.) This is a Bury's Burger, characterized by its red sauce (that's the secret) and topped with an onion slice. York Daily Record file

Where else but York County do you have York Mayor Kim Bracey and other dignitaries participate in a fundraiser in which these delicacies are served: pickled cow tongue, fried chicken liver and pig foot souse. York Daily Record file

All kinds of things are dropped around York County on New Year's Eve: White Rose (York), pickle (Dillsburg); shoe (Hallam). And here we have a cigar - in Red Lion, of course. Red Lion was known to be the capital of cigar making in York County a century ago. York Daily Record file

This is the artwork associated with the film "Toad Road," a 2012 American independent horror thriller film. It was directed by Jason Banker, who has York County ties, and plays on Hellam Township's Seven Gates of Hell urban legend. For more about this myth that has captivated folks for years, cut/paste this link into your browser: http://bit.ly/2e4197E. YDR file

This tall stack towered over Foustown for years, but was demolished after a lightning strike a few years ago. Today this stub is all that remains - the most prominent structure left in Foustown. Submitted, Donald McClure

The Golden Plough Tavern in York is a rare example of German half-timber construction in America. So, what does it look like under the hood? Artist Cliff Satterthwaite gives a view. Cliff Satterthwaite

The Second Street, York, house today has a facade of tall timber. Irvin Baughman tells a story about that wood. Those are chestnut posts salvaged from the York City Market demolished in the 1950s to 1970s period when preservation was not high on the city's list. Irvin Baughman, submitted

The Dempwolf, the famed Victorian-era York-based architectural firm designed homes seemingly everywhere. The Wilson house in York County, Pa.'s, Gatchelville is an example of a big Dempwolf-designed house built in a small town. This sits in southeastern York County. Stewartstown Historical Society

Pennsylvania Dutch York County had a Holland-style windmill in the 1870s. It was constructed by the father of the Dempwolfs, noted architects, on the north bank of the Codorus Creek. York County History Center

Windmills operate around York County today. Here's one of the largest. This is a 16-foot mill in the vicinity of southeastern York County's New Park. It's of a design from 1888, and operates above a three-story mill house. A big mill installation in a tiny York County village. York Daily Record

This swinging bridge, on the north end of Small field, is believed to have been built by York Safe and Lock to allow workers a shortcut across the creek. It's long gone, but stories remain about boys making it swing or harassing others trying to cross the span, wide enough for only one. York County History Center

Under York's Continental Square rests two restrooms or comfort stations. They were opened in 1929 as an answer for when nature called after bars and hotels shut down in the Prohibition era. They finally closed about a decade ago, but they're still down there, possibly the last such intact structure in Pennsylvania. York Daily Record file

This was the original facade of the old York County Prison on Chestnut Street. The familiar red-brick prison replaced it and stands today. But the old cell block at its rear, left, came down in the past 20 years. York Daily Record file

The future of the old Chestnut Street became bright in 2018 when UFD acquired it for use as a datacenter. The prison closed in 1979 when the new jail was opened in Pleasant Acres, Springettsbury Township. It has sat unoccupied since. York Daily Record file

The rivalry - sometimes friendly, sometimes serious - between York and Lancaster counties goes back centuries. York was birthed from Lancaster in 1749, so you could say that some of it comes from the rebellion a son or daughter can show toward parents. Recently, the York Daily Record suggested a tug of war between Lancaster and York on the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. Each county could choose its 100 strongest people and go at it. That's the type of rivalry that's there. York Daily Record

What the heck? How can the smoke billow forward? Well it can when the locomotive powering New Freedom's Steam into History is traveling backwards, as it does on all trips between its home base and Hanover Junction. There's no turntable at the Junction. Rick Ramage, submitted

Yup. When the Street Rods come to town in early June, this is what York County people do. They break out their lawn chairs, sit along Route 30 and enjoy the rolling museum pieces. This image comes from a YDR promotion video of this rite of late spring in York County, Pa. York Daily Record file

Back to the Hex Murder of 1928. Nelson Rehmeyer met his death in the lonely hollow bearing his family's name in southern York County. This was the scene after his body was discovered two days later, Thanksgiving Day. York Daily Record file

Rehmeyer resisted his assailants, who were seeking a lock of his hair to break the spell he had allegedly cast. And they killed him. That broke the alleged spell. They set his body on fire to cover their tracks, but neither it or the house completedly burned. This shows where his body was found in the house in Rehmeyer Hollow. x

The Rehmeyer murder house in Rehmeyer Hollow today. It's still an attraction to motorists who want to see the scene of the murder - an act some believe lead to the first witch trials since those in Salem, Mass. in the late 1600s. For stories about the topics in this gallery, go to YDR.com and search on the topic. York Daily Record file